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		<title>10,000 Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is so fascinating. If I lived 10,000 lifetimes, I couldn’t do, learn, see, say, taste, or meet all I would love to. I’m neither Hindu nor Buddhist. Even if I were, I wouldn’t remember my previous lives, so being one doesn’t even count for more than one life. We only have one life to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandycarl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8174846&amp;post=789&amp;subd=sandycarl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TeReDeSy – Temporary Rejection Depression Syndrom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had it last week. I only realized it when I had a whole day to work on revisions and didn’t even want to look at a computer. The killer was when I realized I was chucking my to-do list, but didn’t even want to do something fun, like read for pleasure. Red flags whipped in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandycarl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8174846&amp;post=784&amp;subd=sandycarl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing About Touchy Subjects and Wild Burros</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about touchy subjects and wondering why they are such. I think I&#8217;ve got it figured out. These sensitive subjects fall into one of two categories: 1) You can be very emotional about said subject, or 2) your intended recipient can be very emotional about it. Most people dread conflict. This can be a good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandycarl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8174846&amp;post=772&amp;subd=sandycarl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Full Moon Hike, Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t a snipe hunt after all. When I first arrived, a mere ten minutes early, there were eight ladies who&#8217;d gotten there before me &#8212; all in their 70&#8242;s, all birders. I wondered, not for the first time in my life, what I&#8217;d gotten myself into, and kept watching the parking lot for my friend to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandycarl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8174846&amp;post=764&amp;subd=sandycarl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Full Moon Hike</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going on a Full Moon Hike tonight, sponsored by the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. Although I know nothing more about this than the words &#8220;hike&#8221; and &#8220;night,&#8221; I can hardly wait until dark. I figure I must be half-cat since I mostly prefer natural light to, say, flashlights. When an electrical light is on out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandycarl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8174846&amp;post=760&amp;subd=sandycarl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Writing Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each January, I come up with writing goals for the year. Each December, I review them. My critique group does this with me. It holds us accountable at the beginning of the year, while they bring tears of laughter with &#8220;what was I thinking!&#8221; by year&#8217;s end. Still, I continue making them each year, simplifying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandycarl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8174846&amp;post=756&amp;subd=sandycarl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Boxing Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In England, the day after Christmas, lords of the manor would box up leftover food and/or special presents for the help and others. I don’t remember when we Carlsons latched onto the holiday. Perhaps it was a lovely, giving continuation of Christmas day, a relaxing post-holiday family time. It certainly wasn’t that we had servants. Celebrating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandycarl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8174846&amp;post=751&amp;subd=sandycarl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wool Sweaters Update</title>
		<link>http://sandycarl.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/wool-sweaters-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just so you know&#8230; when you wash 3 second hand sweaters a couple times, and beneath your 50 year old laundry tub are five twists in the steel drain pipe capable of trapping bunches of washed out wool, plan on adding a couple hundred dollars&#8217; plumbing bill to the cost of those inexpensive sweaters. (Can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandycarl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8174846&amp;post=747&amp;subd=sandycarl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ugly Sweater Parties</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I Kids today are so lucky. So are adult kids. Now and again, one of our own grown kids goes to Ugly Sweater Parties. It&#8217;s apparently a huge hit, and very amusing. Part II Because one of my characters was a knitter, I took a knitting class last month. (Authenticity and all.) At the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandycarl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8174846&amp;post=740&amp;subd=sandycarl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>December 2011 Writing Challenge</title>
		<link>http://sandycarl.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/december-2011-writing-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My NaNoWriMo Skeleton &#8212; after deleting junk and moving things like backstory, character interviews, etc. to other files &#8212; is sadly in need of carbs. Some scenes I thought I&#8217;d written were no more than scene plots. (Picture a &#8220;Home Alone&#8221; palms to face slap.) Then, this morning, after not thinking or writing on it for three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandycarl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8174846&amp;post=735&amp;subd=sandycarl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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